Tie and fastener for railway-rails



n. E. CAUDLE. TIE AND FASTENER FOR RAILWAY RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.13, I920- Patented Dec. 7, 1 9 20.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, I920.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

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amwnto'z ROBERT E. GAUDLE, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

TIE AND FASTENER FOR RAILWAY-RAILS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. '7, 1920.

Application filed September 13, 1920. Serial No. 409,775.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. CAUDLE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at San Antonio, in the county of BeXar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ties and Fasteners for Railway-Rails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for securing railway rails and ties together; and the object is to provide certain fastening devices for securing rails to concrete ties, switches, and crossing ties, and the like. Other objects are to provide fastening devices for embedding in concrete structures or walls for supporting and binding brackets and other devices to the walls, floors, or other parts of a building structure. Another object is to provide devices to which bolts or spikes or other fastening devices are adjustable and interchangeable and in which parts can be repaired without taking up or breaking up the ties and which are adapted for use with rails of different weights. Another advantage is that the devices will prevent the spreading of the rails and will keep the rails in perfect gage. Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fastening devices applied to the reinforcing rods of the concrete and only the outline of the concrete being shown. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, showing only the outline of the concrete tie. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the fastening devices on an enlarged scale and showing the outline of the end of a tie. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a bolt for binding a rail to the binding plate. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of a clamp .used with a bolt. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 7 is a side elevation ofthe same. Fig. 8 is a broken plan View of a binding plate, showing the form of opening for the specially constructed bolt. Fig. 9 is anenlarged side elevationof the fastening devices with a part of a rail applied thereto. Fig. 10 is a broken sectional view, showing the cavity in the concrete for adjustment of the bolt. Fig. 11 is a broken perspective view of one end of a reinforcing rod, showmg the cut-out for anchoring the binding plate to the reinforcing rod.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

The improvements herein set forth are for use in combination with concrete ties and parts are embedded in the concrete. The rails 1 rest on plates 2 which are countersunk in the concrete tie 3. The plate 2 is anchored to the reinforcing rods 4 by cutting anchoring members 5, 6, and 7 from the body of the plate and bending the same vertically downward and then horizontally along on the reinforcing rods 4:. Ears 9 are struck from the horizontal portions of the anchoring members and the reinforcing rods 4; are cut out on the edges to make recesses to receive portions ofthe ears 9. When the concrete is poured in the mold to form the tie and tampe'd about the anchoring members and the reinforcin rods and cured, the anchoring members ancf the reinforcing rods will be firmly and rigidly bound together. For making the binding bolts 13 adjustable cavities 10 are formed in the concrete just under the plate 2 for the head of the bolt. Holes 11 are made through the plate 2 for inserting the bolt heads and the openings have reduced portions 19 to engage the body of the bolt. The head 12 is inserted through the part 11 of the opening and then shifted to the narrower part 19. The Walls of the narrow part of the opening are channeled or formed into racks 14 and ribs or teeth 15 are formed along parts of the bolt. When the bolt is pushed frombelow the plate 2,

the ribs 15 will enter the channels in the plate 2 for holding the bolts against lateral motion. The inner walls are made long enough foradjusting the bolts to rails of different weights or gages, the narrow part 19 of the openings being elongated for this purpose. The bolts project up through the clamping plates 16, the inner walls 17- of which are also channeled in part to receive the upper parts of the ribs 15 of the bolts, the channels not extending entirely through the clamps 16. The clamps 16 engage the base flanges of the rails and the bolts 13 are secured in place by nuts 18'.

The anchoring members 5, 6, and 7 are distributed at different points of the binding plate for making the plate more eflicient.

walls of the clamping plates 16 about the opening through the plates will prevent lat eral movements of the clamping plates.

Various changes in thesizes, proportions, and construction of the several elements may be made without departing from my invention.

What I claim, is

1. A concrete tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie and fastening devices embedded in the tie and including a plate countersunk in the upper surface of the tie and binding members struck from said plate at different. points laterally of the plate for distributing the strain on the plate, reinforcing rods embedded in said tie, extension members on said binding members attached to said rods, and means for attaching rails to said plate.

2. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, ,plates countersunk in the upper surface of said tie, reinforcing rods embedded in said tie, and binding members struck from said plates at dif ferent points laterally of the plates and longitudinally relative to the rails and bent vertically downward and then along said rods and attached thereto.

3. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the surface of said tie, reinforcing rods embedded in said tie, and binding members of A different length struck from said plate and bent vertically downward and extensions of said binding members lying on said reinforcing rods, and ears struck from said extensions and attached to said rods.

4. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the surface of said tie, reinforcing rods embedded in said tie at different depths therein, binding members struck from said plates and bent down to said rods and horizontally thereon, and ears struck from said binding members and attached to said rods, said binding members and ears being em bedded in said tie.

5. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the upper surface of said tie, reinforcing rods embedded in said tie, binding members of different lengths struck from said plates and bent down to and along on said rods and, attached thereto, clamps hav ing openings therethrough, and bolts for binding said clamps to said plates.

6. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the upper surface of said tie, binding members struck from said plates and embedded in said tie, clamps mounted on said plates and provided with bolt holes therethrough and racks in the walls of the holes, bolts projecting up through said holes and provided with heads below said plates and ribs to engage said racks, and nuts for said bolts.

7. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the upper surface of the tie, binding members struck from said plates and extended to different depths in said tie and embedded therein, clamps mounted on said plates and provided with bolt holes there through, said plates having elongated openings for bolt holes and said tie having cavities for the heads of bolts, bolts extending through said plates and clamps and having heads in said cavities, and nuts for said bolts.

8. A railway tie and fasteners therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the upper surface of said tie, binding members struck from said plates and. bent downwardly to different depths in said tie and then horizontally therein and embedded in said tie, clamps provided with bolt holes mounted on said plates, bolts for binding said clamps to said plates, said bolts having heads below said plates and said plates having elongated openings therethrough and said tie having elongated cavities therein for adjustment of said bolt heads, and nuts for said bolts.

9. A railway tie and fastenings therefor comprising a tie of concrete, plates countersunk in the upper surface of said tie, binding members struck from said plate and embedded in said tie, clamps mounted on said plates and provided with bolt openings therethrough, said plates having elongated openings therethrough for' bolts and the openings being large enough at one end to receive bolt heads and narrow portions for engaging the bolts toward the open end and said tie having elongated cavities for adj usting bolt heads, racks formed in the walls of the narrow portions of the holes in said plates, and bolts having heads below said plates and having ribs to engage said racks and nuts for said bolts.

In testimony whereof, I set my hand, this 24th day of August 1918.

7 ROBERT E. CAUDLE. 

